delhi zoo

Shailja Chauhan -November 17, 2023

According to the Air Quality Index, the air in the national capital has deteriorated further after Diwali, necessitating extra care and attention for the animals inside the zoo

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Tahir Bhat -March 21, 2023

Various studies have shown that the Sparrow is crucial to the environment as they keep insects and pests under control. In May 2022, Delhi built its first ‘Gouriaya Gram’ in Garhi Mandu city forest to protect and conserve the House sparrow

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Shruty Yadav -March 14, 2022

A seemingly bored black-faced langur, or monkey, sits in a sunny corner of its cave examining its long tail. The langur was basking in the moderately warm heat that the capital receives with the onset of summers. It looked puzzled, surprised to have found a part of its body hanging out there, or perhaps too […]

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PTI -March 1, 2022

Earlier, the zoo had reopened for visitors on August 1, more than two months after it was shut due to a rise in the number of Covid cases during the second wave of the pandemic. The zoo was closed for the public on January 4 and the online ticket booking link on its website was […]

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Sashikala VP -October 12, 2021

Having spent decades alone in confinement, Shankar, Delhi zoo’s lone African elephant  awaits action for his rehabilitation, which might be his only chance at finding companionship Shankar is the lone African elephant in the Delhi Zoo. A gift from the Zimbabwe government to former President Shankar Dayal Sharma, the elephant named after him, was brought […]

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PTI -October 4, 2021

The Delhi zoo received two tigresses and a pair of sloth bears from Maharashtra on Monday morning under an animal exchange programme In return, the Delhi facility will provide sambar deer, albino blackbuck, blackbuck and barking deer to the Gorewada zoo and rescue centre in Nagpur. “We received two tigresses from the Nagpur zoo early this […]

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Sashikala VP -August 10, 2021

Taking note of the welfare of animals in the Delhi Zoo, measures are being taken by the authority in place — thereby paving way for a more conducive environment    Since 2020, the world has been wound in a series of unusual and well, devastating circumstances. Around the same time, it has given a chance […]

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Sashikala VP -May 3, 2018

They may be kings of the jungle but bred in captivity in the Delhi zoo, white tigers are reduced to a mere curiosity — and their quality of life greatly compromised July 21, a warm summer day in 2007, Yamuna gave birth to Vijay. Yamuna is from Delhi — her union arranged like many others […]

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